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ASC.ARMY.MIL 99
When you boil it down, the pur-
pose of the Army acquisition
community, and really the entire
Institutional Army, is to make
the Operational Army better. Isn't that what our
goal is every day---to bring a new materiel solu-
tion to the force that will help our Soldiers do
their jobs better?
It was in that spirit that the U.S. Army Test and
Evaluation Command (ATEC) and the Army
Capabilities Integration Center and Maneuver
Battle Lab of the U.S. Training and Doctrine
Command (TR ADOC) came together recently
to conduct a combined, in-theater For ward
Operational Assessment (FOA) of the Acceler-
ated Precision Mortar Initiative (APMI). For two
weeks in October 2011, elements from ATEC and
TR ADOC conducted the assessment in Afghani-
stan, using sur veys and interviews of mortar
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by individual organizations. This article deliber-
ately stays away from the results of the combined
APMI DOTMLPF assessment, instead focusing
more on the background, the combined nature
of the assessment, and its contribution to Army
Acquisition. Other programs conceivably could
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ASSESSMENT RESPONSIBILITIES
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precision mortar. Pete Burke and Ted Hom intro-
duced the system and the accelerated nature of
the APMI acquisition in "Right on Target" (Army
AL&T Magazine, October-December 2011).
In March 2010, during the early stages of the APMI
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bilities Division (ACD) of the Army Capabilities
Integration Center (ARCIC) contacted ATEC,
and the two agreed to conduct a cooperative
capability and operational assessment. ATEC's
primary goal was to determine the capabilities
DOTmLPF + dotMlpf =
DOTMLPF
by MAJ Marcus Grimes, Paul Wallace, Chris Warshawsky, and James Breeze
ATEC, TRADOC join forces, perspectives, and
expertise for an unusual combined in-theater assessment
EFFICIENCIES
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